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What’s So Great About the Declare War Clause?
PDF Version A review of Noah Feldman’s “The Three Lives of James Madison,” (Random House, 2017). *** I -
Knesset Considers Changing Law to Apply Death Penalty to Convicted Terrorists
Israel has confronted terrorist attacks for many decades, but in all of those years, the Knesset and the public have not seriously considered whether the justice system should sentence convicted terroris... -
Political Islam and Islamist Terrorism in Bangladesh: What You Need to Know
Editor’s Note: Despite the size of its population and growing importance, Bangladesh gets little attention in policy circles. This is true even though radical terrorist groups like the Islamic State are ... -
What’s Up With McGahn Revisionism?
“[T]he WH Counsel seems to be renting out space in his office to the New York Times,” notes Bill Kristol in reference to the sympathetic New York Times story yesterday about White House Counsel Don McGah... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Stephen Vladeck on Dalmazzi
Lawfare contributor and University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck argued before the Supreme Court last week in United States v. Dalmazzi, a case concerning the appointment of military judges to t... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Thursday, the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump ordered the firing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller in June. Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes reacted to the story. -
Rational Security: The "Did You Vote for Us?" Edition
FBI Director Christopher Wray resists administration pressure to clean house at the bureau. Bob Mueller’s Russia probe interviews Jeff Sessions and talks to Jim Comey. And Rex Tillerson presents a new U.... -
McGahn's Defense of the Office of the White House Counsel
Thursday night's New York Times report of the president’s failed move in June 2017 to dismiss Special Counsel Robert Mueller lays out a basic narrative: President Trump ordered Mueller’s firing, but rele... -
Summary: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Russia Report
The Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee released a report on Jan. 10 entitled “Putin’s Asymmetrical Assault on Democracy in Russia and Europe: Implications for U.S. National Security.” Th... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Last June, the president ordered the firing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, reports the New York Times. When President Donald Trump ordered White House counsel Don McGahn to transmit the president’s o... -
Summary: Kaspersky Lab Files for a Preliminary Injunction Against DHS
On Jan. 17, cybersecurity and software vendor Kaspersky Lab filed for a preliminary injunction against the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) order designating the company’s software as an “informa... -
What's So Great About the Declare War Clause? Noah Feldman's Madison & War Powers: Part III
The first two essays of this three-part series on Noah Feldman’s “The Three Lives of James Madison” discussed Madison’s theory of war powers and some of its failure or adaptation in practice. This last e...
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